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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21

Our neighboring town of Keene, n. H.,
is place where religion, education and
business thrive as well as they do in most
New England towns hut rum-selling and
the baser vices which inevitably go with it
have also always thriven there in way
that would shock some of our virtuous Yer
mont towns and intermittent, spasmodic
attempts to get rid of these evils have new
err accomplished their object The clergy
Of the ambitions Getty" have now taken the
matter seriously in hand and they unite in
an open letter or address to the people,
viewing with deep concern the evils Of the
liquor traffic and the signs Of the existence
of other forms of gross immortality They
call the attention of the people "to the
scriptural foundations upon which the re
preston Of these evils rest" and are per
suaded that every legal means should be
used to repreSs them. As means to the
end sought they name the last Sunday in
January as time when they will hold each
in his own church, services ''in the interests
| of temperance and pure morality, land when
an afternoon mass meeting will he held tC
arouse public sentiment and to take steps to
organize a league "whose object shall he to
create public sentiment and evoke a public
conscience that will be an effectual barrier
against the further aggressions of these
fearful evils and meet them with an over
coming and overwhelming opposition.
Keene is a rarely handsome and attractiv,
town in its outward seeming, and we hope
its ministers will succeed in the good worl
they have undertaken
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21

Stories almost too cruel for belief are told
of the eviction of Irish tenants by their
landlords. Government police and bailifis
do the work under DEGREES from the courts.
forcing the poor people out of the novels
which answer for houses, regardless of age,
sex or feeble health Some landlords have
burned their houses TO keep the miserable
tenants from going back To them hut lat
terly, in Difference TO government opinion
on the subject, they have adopted the plan
of wrenching them down with crowbars
The London Standard, Tory organ, says:
There are unquestionably cases that bring
shame and discredit ON the whole body of
landlords in Ireland cases in which land
lords have not behaved with any show of
respect for equity and have done gross
wrong to those whose happiness and lives
depended upon their forbearance Such
landlords have no right to lie supplied by
the government with means for enforcing
DEGREES granted them by the strict process
of the law. Some of this winters evic-
tons have been inhuman spectacles, fit only
| for II barbarous country and a barhaTous
| age. The government may well consider
whether it is not time to dissociate the ac-
ton of the Irish executives from the en-
/ forcement of such DEGREES"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21
.us- Post office box 3Gl .
THE WEATHER.

THAT EXCITING topic or PERENNIAL INTER
EsT-soME REMARKS ABOUT THERMoME-
TERS AND OTHER BIG STORY -TEILERs
Vermont, with the rest of New England
has had no occasion To take back seat on
the weather question, and "a good deal of it,
the past week. The storm Of last Friday
brought foot and more of snow and ON
Monday the amount was duplicated. This
made a depth of at least three feet on
level in the valleys, with foot more on the
hills,-a body If snow larger than for sew
eral years past. Monday night the wind
took hand in the entertainment with the
result that ON Tuesday there was a com
plete and universal blockade IN the hill
towns and the river towns were scarcely
better of. As usual the oldest inhabitant"
cant remember any such sort of a time.
Just as he can't whenever big storm comes
From Monday till to-day, Friday, there was
no communication by stage through from
Wilmington or Jacksonville Neither stage
made any effort Ia move on Tuesday or
Wednesday, and ON Thursday they only
came in from Marlboro and Green River re
spectively The shovel brigade have gained
a partial victory however and today both
stages have come through with their long
delayed mails The Williamsvie and Dover
stage only got rs far as East Dover ON Mon
day night and had to stay there two days.
The narrow-gauge train started out of So.
Londonderry as usual Tuesday morning hut
got stalled in the snow at Cobb brook bridge
and only succeeded in working down 10 with
in half mile of Jamaica before the big
snow-plow with two engines reached il in
course of the day.
The main lines of railroad were badly
blocked and Tuesday trains were DELAYED
several hours in both directions. Until yes
terday no effort was made Ia move freight
All that could he done was to clear the
track and keep passenger trains moving.
Freight cars on the sidings are buried wheel
deep and have to be dug out and pulled out
one at IA time In the BrattlebOro ward the
whole force has been at work removing the
SNOW. At least 200 carloads have been car
ried out in the three days. The east and
west lines are as badly blocked. In places
this side of Fitchburg one of the main lines
of the double track is filled with freight
cars waiting tn he moved aud all business
has to be done ON the other track 1900
cars are in the Fitchburg yard at Boston
loaded with goods waiting for export.
Wednesday morning brought such a sharp
dip of the thermometer as is not often ex-
perienced. The record varied from 90 to
40 IN different parts of the county, accord
ing To location, and according 10 the degree
Of ambition or depression possessed by the
different thermometers In this village the
markings We're from % To 2s West Brat
tleboro went 10 better, and Bellows Falls
and Keene reported 40 degrees. The record
for the county was bulletined by the tele-
phone exchange with Wilmington, which
reported only $ below, appropriately rated
as 1.-THE Florida of Windhan county"
The storm aud cold wave extended all
over New England, New York, the Canadas
and the northwest
From Montreal this report came ON the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21

We once more acknowledge the great
pleasure which we have in observing the
painstaking care with which Mr.. Atkins
reads The Phoenix. In IA short item in our
East Dover correspondence last week it
was announced that the post-ofiice, after a
weeks absence under the new Democratic
postmaster, had gone back to its old place
in Halladays store. This week the Argus
promptly picks up the item and says the
pesky Phoenix left out something because it
didn't say that the return of the office to
its old quarters was due to the bulldozing
tactics of "a few seed Republican bigots, 4"
who tried to bounce Mr.. Postmaster Brown
by boycotting his Office and raising hula
baloo generally The fact of the whole
matter is that the East Dover people, with
out regard to party, We're so dissatisfied
and disguised with the removal of the office
from the most proper and convenient place
for it in the village that the force of public
opinion compelled the return of the office to
its old place, and the Democrats themselves
were glad enough to see it back there.
The East Dover case is only one more in
stance where Nj Atkins has officiously en-
gineered IA change of postmasters when
none was called for by the wishes or con
venience of the people in interest
So far as another paragraph is concern
ed, which Mr.. Atkins kindly devotes to the
Phoenix this week, we simply wish to as
sure our neighbor that the Phoenix means
exactly what it says when it talks about
civil service reform principles and theil
practice
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21
THE VERMONT pIuNIx BrAr1EBoRo

Congress a bill requiring railroad cars to be
heated 10y steam and furbidding the use in
them Of stoves or Of any heating apparatus
containing any inhammablo substance ex-
cept gas.
The Senate has passed the interstate com
merce bill, which proposes to regulate the
charges and management Of railroads in
the country It compels all railroads TO
publish every change Of rates, and keep
them before the public in some way It
prohibits pooling to divide earnings or APP
portion business, and cmbodies a stringent
short haul provision forbidding as great
sum to he charged for hauling freight
shorter as longer distance over the same
road
The health of Congressman S. S. Cox is
said to have suffered severely by his change
from the encrvating climate Of the East b.
the rigors Of an American winter. Ever
since the cold weather Of the holidays he
has been confined to his room in Washing
ton and his friends look upon his condition
with anxiety
Jonas ID. CLARK, Worcester, Mass. mil
lionaire, has made known his intention to
endow university there which in its
scheme shall not fall behind Harvard or
Yale.
President Cleveland has sent to Congress
message recommending the celebration
next September Of the centennial unnvers
AIRY Of the adoption Of the constitution Of
the United States.
The statistics Of last years strikes and
lock outs are full Of meaning for the labor
ing classes. 1t is estimated that $50, 600
employees were at one time or another en-
gagged in this business, but there are no da-
Ia for determining the number of days lost
or the sacrifice of wages There were ~
important strikes during the year, Of which
40 failed entirely, T. were compromised "A
may be reckoned successful aud seven part
! ly 50. The losses from unsuccessful and
successful strikes alike were tremendous.
and these figures emphasize the need for
some substitute for this costly warfare.
Richmond is feeling the industrial boom
that is developing the South. and in her
shops and factories Virginia whites and
blacks work side by side, doing the same
work and drawing the same pay. Nv,
head rollers in the Tredegar iron works. one
white and the other black are said to gel
$3.50 a month each, while other skilled work
men of both races are said to make from
81 to 50 day. Belle Isle prison is now
big iron foundry aud Libby a merchant
headquarters.
Mrs. Grant has turned over Ia the Gran
monument committee of New York S0S2 ~
being the sum of two checks from the treas
ury department--one Of Sl2O GOVERN!
three months extra pay for Gen Grant
service as quartermaster in Mexico. and on
of $500 30 for the pay due the general from
July /, 1885, to the Odd, the day of hi
death. Col f. d. Grant in sending tn
checks to George Jones Of the New Yorl
Times for presentation to the monument a
sociation, says: My mother feels tina
this money is too sacred to be used in an
other way than as AN offering toward tn
, building Of a monument IA the memory q
her husband
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21
MINOR NOTES.

The fifth annual convention of the Cit
zens' Law and Order League of the United
States will he held at Albany, n. Y, on the
Goth, 2lst and 22d days of February, 1887.
Clergymen throughout the country are
invited To set apart one service ON Sunday
the 2lst to the consideration Of the subject
of the enforcement of laws intended to
promote the morality and welfare of the
people. The call for the convention asks
"all good citizens who realize the dangers
which threaten our country through law
lessness, to unite in such manner as they
best can, and assist in making the 22d of
February Law and Order day throughout
the country
Both branches of Congress have passed
the Mexican pension bill, and it only awaits
the signature of the President to become
law. 1t gives s. per month TO every sur
viving officer and enlisted man, including
marines, militia and volunteers.
The citizens Of Chicago having contrib
uted $4,000 10 fund to pay the mortgage
ON Mrs. Logan's home in Washington, the
notes were cancelled and presented to Mrs
Logan ON Monday and she now owns the
house known as Calumet Place, on Column
bia Heights, free from all membranes.
Mrs. Logan's gratitude was expressed in a
letter 10 William Nixon of Chicago, thank
ing him for his efforts and those who had
contributed so generously 10 her future
comfort
In the Senate on Monday Mr.. Edmunds
called attention to bill introduced by him
and referred 10 the post office committee,
providing for a government postal tele-
graph. He wished the committee 10 re
port it either favorably or unfavorably, 50
that he might try To get the judgment of
the Senate upon it.
The Plucky and prosperous village of
West Randolph has not escaped its dose of
tribulation under the present regime, The
nomination by the President of William b.
Wall, a former well known conductor and
excursion agent ON the Central Vermont
railroad, as postmaster at that place, causes
much dissatisfaction among the Democratic
patrons of the office. Mr.. Walls name has
not been prominently mentioned for the po-
sition, and it was generally supposed that
one of the two active candidates for the
Office would receive the appointment James
Hutchinson, Republican, having filled out
his term of office, retires after X years of
active service.
The House passed Tuesday by the over
whelming. vote of l79 10 70 the bill pen
sioning disabled and dependent soldiers and
and sailors and dependent parents of sol
diers and sailors. 1t applies to the veter-
ans of any war-Seminole, Black Hawk,
Mexican, and war of the rebellion and
gives a uniform allowance of Sl2 "a month
from the time of the passage of the bill.
Representative Tillnan has introduced in
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21
CHASE IND ATKINS.
The Amenities of Life ia the Bemo-
cratic Camp.

Frum the Argus aud Patriot. l2th inst
The Argus and Patriot has given all the
space that it feels justified in deyoting to
the venal saying, of c. NJ Chase over the
appointment Of Col. a. NJ Dckey as post
master at Bradford 1t has stated very
plainly what is generally known t. be true.
that the Lyndon Union is Democratic or
Republican Just IA will pay best, and that
Chase's convictions Of duty are shaped by
what he thinks will bring the most grist to
his mill. lie has no standing ~ a Democrat
with the party III his own county. or in the
state, and hence what he SAYS carries no
weight with il among Democrats unless
they are kckers, who are comparatively
few in Vermont For these reasons the
Argus and Patriot dismisses G. NJ Chase
From tie. I.ynd"n Union Ilth inst
We have been member ri the party
quite as long a. Mr. Atkins has and if our
record is not more loyal and more consistent
with patriotism, integrity and decency than
his is, we are ready to be east into the
slums of public contempt. We have never
been logged for disoyalty We never
rhuckled with glee at the distress If our
country. We never pushed hack when
Uncle Sam cried out in agony for help to
keep the old hag ahuut in the breeze No
true Democrat ever did this. But Hiram
Atkins did. He never saw IA daY when
he could raise his unworthy head out of the
filth ~ virulent, partisan prejudice into the
pure sunlight Ut patriotism, no more than
"A wart- back toad could take wings and rise
from the ceSsponl into the pure atmosphere
above. What brazen impudence for such a
man to undertake Ia determine the quality
Of true Democracy. He shouldn't be sur
prised AT having his scalp lifted when he
presumes Ia undertake such an impnssihil
ty. We have said that this man is an incu-
bus and a nightmare upon the Democratic
party of Vermont. The remark is true
enough to be stereotyped in big letters and to
be painted over the entrance of every Dem
Ocratic headquarters in the state He is a
stencil in the nustrils of patriotic Democra-
cy, and wrenching gag upon the political
public generally. We dislike to utter these
facts, so keenly felt 10y every honest Demo
crat in the state but Atkins's impotence
makes 1t necessary. A true Democrat is
always proud of his record for patriotism
and consistency, and he won't allow it to he
smirched 10y the froth, foam and poisonous
scum of IA brazen political reptile. Where
is there a Democrat in the state who would
not blush and hide his head in shame at the
mere thought that this man might possibly
he received abroad as IA true representation
of the inwardness of Vermont Democracy.
| He cant be found
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21
HOME NEWS.
TH"IF"T0TUTIITIT HINN"TWf
WEEK ENpNe THURSDAY EvrNSo. Jan eo 1887
Announcements.

The Whitmore 4 CLARK minstrel company will
give an entertainment at the town hall on Mon.
day evening, Jan. ~. This company IL we'll known
to orr citizens, having visited us many times, and
always been greeted with large audiences. Sever
al new attractions have b.en added this season.
and the company now includes the Hennrssy
brothers, the finest dancers and comedians ON the
road; Mr.. John Adams a favurite western come
dian; DcForst West, the great primadona; Norris
aud Sermons artistic musical mol,ps. who play ON
twenty musical Instruments aud many others
who must be seen 10 be appreciated
DR.. Cruss is at the Brooks lluus..
r'crrRE FRAMES are cheap at Chpp n Jun,s's
Dinner at u O'Clock 25c at Bllss's
Lunches FROM BE- up at Hiss
Lodging from 2jc mp at Bliss's
Meals cooked to order at Hiss
Table hoard, u meals, SiUU pr week at Bliss
Try barrel Of Jaculs's list Prize Suprlative'
flour at $3.50
Picture frames IN grsat.yari'ty at A. = Willrr's
shop open evenings from tuS
Buy Picture Frames Of Gryldis
Headquarters for choice tea and coffee at ia
cobss tea store, under the sign Of the hig ttrr r
ARTISTIC PIcruRE FRAMING at Clapp x Jones s
n. l Hawley and Sturkey a Wellnan will hav,
! a special sale Of Cloak~ and OVcrcoats at the hu
tel parlors in South Londonderry ON Tuesday
| Wednesday, Thursday aud Friday " next week
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21

ifornia has ended in the election Of Hearst,
who was appointed 10 succeed Senator Mil
Ter. and has secured the succession, il is al
legged. by a corrupt use Of money.
In New York the fight over the choice Of
a successor to Senator Warner Miller prom
ised to be long and bitter one with Mr..
Miller. Mr.. Morton and Frank Hiscock ms
the three Republican candidates, but the
contest was cut short by the agreement Of
the Republicans in a caucus held Wednesday
night to unite on Mr.. Hiscock
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21

18th. One Of the most binding billiards.
accompanied by a heavy snow fall, has
ragged here for the last % hours To make
matters worse the cold Is intense aud loco
motion is interrupted. The storm is the
heaviest known here in a quarter Of cen
tury, and il is estimated that il viii cost
the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific rail
roads $50, 900.
EXTRACT FROM Az INTERVIEW WITH SER
GEANT COLE, SIGNAL OFFICER, BOSTON.
How do you account for the fact that
while your official temperature is but he
low reports are coming in from the suburbs
of IL, 20 and % degrees below y
"A great deal is accounted for by the
thermometers. and some allowance always
has TO he mnde for the natural exaggera-
tive disposition Of mankind and the innate
desire TO tell the biggest story
Then you do not believe that the temper
allure has been as low as is reported =
"Well, our report Of course is taken
from this elevated point. II is naturally
colder in the valleys, notably, as is always
the case among the Milton hills. You see,
cold air is heavy and sinks into the depres
sions If the earth. where is chilled by the
natural radiation from the earth. | should
allow perhaps difference Of ) That is
10 say, it may possibly have been 10 he
low in some low lands, but think anything
much lower than that can be considered to
| he a mistake, caused, AS ] have said by the
thermometer You see most Of these ex
cessive temperatures are taken from cheap
/ thermometers, which are not 10 be depend
ed upon They are graduated to freezing
| aud boiling points but above and below
| That they are really not 10 he depended up
/ on
The above undoubtedly explains why 50
many extremely low temperatures-2S or
30 against the modest - below shown by
our weather record--were reported herea-
bouts Mr. W H. Childs, who keeps the
local record asa contribution to the work Of
the New England Meteorological society.
tells Us that he has tested good many or
binary thermometers. which mark such
low temperatures in winter and such high
ones in summer. and by comparison with
his government standard thermometer he
he has found them unreliable at extremes
Of temperature. ITS cold enough, any
way" he dryly adds, and there is no need
IF a thermometer tu remind us of 1.-THE
II l.sI1 vr.,1t,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-01-21
West Dover.

School is progressing finely and the schol
airs have shown their interest by making
great efforts to attend during this showing.
blowing, drifting time
Rev. R. d. Metcalf is visiting his family
friends in the north part of the state.
We are very glad that the post office de
paTtment has not seen fit to remove our re
spected postmaster, d, n May, from Office.
Almost every one is well satisfied with pres
ent arrangements and feels that the office is
now in a reliable place, and accommodates
people much better than it could anywhere
else